If I run ls I get colored output which I find pretty handy for quickly getting a glance of the kind of file. When I try to pipe it to less even with the -r and -R flags the coloring always get lost. I am using zsh version 5.0.7. Any ideas? Thanks.
Previously I used source command like this:
In the manual page of tar command, an option for following hard links is listed.
I would like to make a shell script that executes commands on a device that I telnet to or in programs such as FTP or OpenSSL. I have already found a method in FTP, which would look something like this:
I was calibrating my touch screen, and saw that the best tool around was xinput_calibrator. So I used it. It have two options (one of which did not work), so I am here for the second. It says I should execute this command “in a script that starts with your X session”:
I do stuff such as :- $ copy debian-8.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /media/shirish/4719-38E5/ Copy here is an alias for :- $ alias copy alias copy='rsync –progress -ravz' When it does the command it takes a long time to complete and does :- $ copy debian-8.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /media/shirish/4719-38E5/ sending incremental file list debian-8.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso 3,607,855,104 100% 9.11MB/s 0:06:17 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) sent … Read more
I wanted to know what mathematical connection is there between the SZ, RSS and VSZ output in ps output e.g.
I’m about to re-organise all my HDDs in my home linux box nas and would like to use mdadm raid for data protection and its flexibility for reshaping the arrays. However, before I use mdadm for this I’d like to know how it handles bit rot. Specifically the kinds of bit rot that do not result in unrecoverable read error messages being sent from the HDD.
Is there an equivalent of the Window’s Print Screen + Paste (or better yet the Mac OS Cmd+Shift+4, Space) in Gnome?
As a Linux newbee, I would like to know What exactly is the significance of “Quiet Splash” in GRUB?